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Thursday, December 27, 2007

I wanna be adored

Last night I sat down on the couch with the new Rolling Stone (and their interview with my thoroughly-beloved Cormac McCarthy) and watched two very interesting BBC America documentaries. The first was called My Small Breasts and I, followed by My Big Breasts and Me. Yep, boobs. Both of them were fascinating inquiries into how a) we always want what we ain't got and b) bigger is not always better (I must say, I ran with a new sense of gratitude at the gym today).

I mention breasts not only to watch all the interesting Google results that will now bring people here on my statcounter, but because when Small Breast British Girl #2 was walking down the cobbled streets of her quaint town, giving her new sample boobs a test drive and judging the reaction of men passing by, the song playing in the background was The Stone Roses "I Wanna Be Adored." This made my ears perk up because that's certainly a slinky fantastic song normally absent from American TV, and I felt the need to officially give props to those cool BBC music producers. Then, as my brain is wont to do, I ADHDed my way across synapses to think upon this cool documentary that I had recently seen on VH1 about the Stone Roses and meant to mention. See, it connects.

VH1 Classic is schooling us all with an enjoyable series on The Seven Ages of Rock, including one about What The World's Been Waiting For: Brit Pop. If The Man is forcing you to work today, this is a superb way to kill time which is already essentially grey, lifeless, and dead in these waning hours of 2007 when no one wants to be at work.

You can watch the entire feature online, and it's nicely broken up into segments on The Smiths, the Manchester scene, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Suede, Blur, The Libertines, etc. While I almost prefer the gentle British lull of the female narrator talking about breasts to Dennis Hopper's sharp delivery here, you know that I love this era of music, and this series (which was originally assembled for the BBC) unearths some pretty cool live footage and has ace interviews with all the biggies.

The early version is quite enlightening... it's amazing how little details such as the tone of the guitar make or break the song. The early version just sounds too hard, the final version is more flowing.

Have you heard an unreleased song by the Roses called Sun Still Shines? If not, download it here, it's really good!

That could be my all time favorite song.But how could I have missed that: BBCA, britpop and women complaining about their breasts? It brings to mind another Stone(s) "You can't always get what you want"....I would love to run more comfortably =)Thanks for the links, again!

I remember 1989 a friend gives me a tape to listen to (yes a tape!) that he got when his dad was stationed in England (army). That tape didn't get returned to him until I was able to buy the CD in 1990. It remains one of my favorites.

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